All our Russian interpreters are suitably qualified and have been vetted by our Project Managers at our head office. Often they also have an individual specialist subject knowledge.

If you need a Russian interpreter with a particular level of clearance such as a DBS Enhanced Certificate, Police clearance or a Home Office Counter Terrorist check, just let us know and we will arrange the closest available interpreter for you.

Our Russian translators only translate into their mother tongue. They also have specialist subject knowledge so they can combine linguistic skill with expertise in the subject area. This combination means translations are both technically accurate and culturally astute.

Knockhundred Translations provides translation and interpreting services in over 190 languages besides Russian. You can see a full list of languages that we interpret and translate here.

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Quite interesting facts about the Russian language

Russian is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Russia and many other countries by about 260 million people, 150 million of whom are native speakers. Russian is an official language in Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and in a number of other countries, territories and international organisations, including Tajikistan, Moldova, Gagauzia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and the UN. It is also recognised as a minority language in Romania, Finland, Norway, Armenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The earliest known writing in Russia dates from the 10th century and was found at Novgorod. The main languages written on them in an early version of the Cyrillic alphabet were Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic. There are also some texts in Finnish, Latin and Greek.

Russian started appearing in writing regularly during the reign of Peter the Great (a.k.a. Peter I) (1672-1725) who introduced a revised alphabet and encouraged authors to use a literary style closer to their spoken language. The dialect of Moscow was used as the basis for written Russian.

Russian literature started to flower during the 19th century when Tolstoi, Dostoyevskii, Gogol and Pushkin were active. During the Soviet era knowledge of the Russian language was wide spread though the subjects authors could write about were restricted.